Niobium and tantalum high Q resonators for photon detectors

IEEE Transactions on Applied Superconductivity

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 263-266

  Barends, R ^a   Baselmans, J J A ^b   Hovenier, J N ^a   Gao, J R ^a,b   Yates, S J C ^b   Klapwijk, T M ^a   Hoevers, H F C ^b  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dielectric losses; Kinetic inductance; Photon detection; Superconducting resonators

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC LOSSES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; NIOBIUM; PHASE NOISE; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; TANTALUM;

KINETIC INDUCTANCE; PHOTON DETECTION; QUALITY FACTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING RESONATORS;

RESONATORS;

EID: 34547444590     PISSN: 10518223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASC.2007.898541     Document Type: Conference Paper

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